Positioning A national advanced demonstration zone of circular economy, a new rising industrial city in Guangxi, a regional transportation hub for Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan, and an outstanding and well-known ecological tourist city in southern China. As “Exploitation of the Works of Nature”, a history book written Name Card in the Ming Dynasty, says "Tin is named He in ancient books, and Linhe (Hezhou) gets its name from the production of tin." Hezhou has a history more than 2,100 years since it was established as Linhe County in 111 B.C., the 6th Yuanding year of Hanwudi in the Western Han National Demonstration Zone of Accepting Industrial Transfer, Chinese National Excellent Tourist City, National Dynasty. In Hejie Town of Babu District, there still stand some Model City of Two-supports, Civilized City of Guangxi, Country of Chinese Hakka People, Longevity Country, Country of well-preserved walls of Nanhan Kingdom built in the period of Five Famous Tea, Country of Rare Stone, and Country of Water Chestnut Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960 AD). In 226, the 5th Huangwu year of Wu kingdom in the period of Three-kingdoms, Linhe was reestablished as Linhe prefecture. During Environment Overview the period of Sui Dynasty (589–618 AD), Linhe was renamed Hezhou in the 9th Kaihuang year. Located at the place where Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan provinces meet, Hezhou has been an important business center, since the ancient time, for economic exchanges between Central Plains and the south of the Five Ridges, and for cultural exchange among Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces. And it was also the vital part of the "Maritime Silk Road". When history turns a new leaf in the 21st century, Hezhou, the ancient city, has been revitalized. In November, 2002, with the Location: Hezhou locates in the east of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and is bounded by Qingyuan and approval of the State Council, Hezhou was reestablished as a Zhaoqing of Guangdong on the east, Yongzhou of Hunan on the north, Guilin on the west, and Wuzhou on the south. municipality, with Babu District, Pinggui Administrative Zone, Area: The whole city covers an area of 11855 km², including 26 km² of downtown area. Zhongshan County, Zhaoping County and Fuchuan Yao Autonomous Population: The city is populated by 2.3 million, including 0.2 million in downtown area. The commonly used County under its jurisdiction. languages include Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, southwest Mandarin, etc. Climate: Hezhou enjoys its south subtropical monsoon climate with an average annual temperature of 20℃, annual precipitation 1500-2000 mm, and annual frost-free period more than 320 days. Industrial Advantages Hezhou is fully implementing the strategy of “developing Hezhou by developing industry to enrich the people and prosper the city”, developing circular economy with great effort, and sparing no effort to develop the 5 major pillar industries (electric power, forest, mineral, electronics, and new materials) and pushing forward the development of industrial clusters. There are 152 up-scale Industry Enterprises, including Guangxi Guidong Electric Power Co., LTD., which is a key enterprise for West-to-East Power Transmission, Hezhou Guidong Electronic Technology Co., LTD., which has domestic leading technology for electronic aluminum foil production and with 10 million m2 annual output, and Lingfeng Pharmaceutical Co., LTD., Guangxi, which is well-known and has a good reputation. The city has more than 160 forest products processing enterprises with an annual production capacity of 1.8 million m³ wood-based panels, and 196 ground calcium carbonate ultrafine powder producing enterprises with an annual production of more than 6 million tons. Following are the encouraged competitive industries: 1. Electronics industry: Exert the advantage of a high output production base of electronic aluminum foil, and extend the production chain of upstream and downstream industries such as refined aluminum, aluminum foil, electronic aluminum products, etc. aiming to construct a national aluminum industry base. 2. Mining industry: Through fully utilizing the rich mineral resources in the local area, such as rare earths, iron, manganese, tungsten, tin, granite, marble, ceramics soil, etc. to develop the deep processing of non-ferrous metals, stone powder, building materials, so as to extend the production chain and make mining industry clustered. 3. Forest industry: Encourage to integrate small and medium-sized enterprises through capital operation and establish large scale groups of board and wood pulp paper with emphasis on production of high-grade and middle-grade furniture and deep processing of high density fiber and pulp by making use of advanced technics and technology which meets the need of clean production. 4. New materials industry: Develop industrial cluster such as rare earths functional materials, tungsten, titanium, and tin new materials, electronic and information materials, nano-powder materials, new building materials, the novel macromolecule materials, etc. by utilizing the rich mineral resources and competitive industries in Hezhou. 5. Electric power industry: Develop wind power and solar electrical energy generation, and electric power industry chain with priority on the basis of the steady development of hydro-electric power and thermal power. 6. Pharmacy industry: Utilizing the rich resources of Chinese herb, Hezhou encourages foreign investors to introduce in or develop new products with advanced technology and equipments, in order to extend its pharmacy industry from traditional Chinese medicines to chemical pharmacy, biological pharmacy with wider range of medicines and medical products. 7. Mining and processing of rare earths: Accelerate the development of rare earths functional materials, basing on fully utilizing, investing and developing the rare earths resources, such as rare earth trichromatic phosphors, neodymium boron permanent magnetic materials, rare earth polishing materials, rare earth nano-materials, rare earth alloy smelting products, magnetic separator, exhaust purifiers for motor vehicle, permanent magnet motor, wire and cable of rare earth alloy, sapphire crystal, and other projects related to rare earth deep-processing. 8. Industry of farm and sideline products: On the basis of Hezhou’s comparative advantage of rich farm and sideline products resources, the development of processing of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. shall be given stress with efforts to support the development of export-oriented enterprises of farm product processing. 9. Tourism: Accelerate the development of characteristic tourism and eco-tourism by fully utilizing the resources of natural scenery and historical culture, and encourage foreign investors to participate in the development of tourist resources such as Gupo Mounain, Huang-Yao Ancient Town, Purple Cloud Cave, Xiushui No.1 Scholar Village, Ten-mile Lotus Pond Gallery, etc. 10. Urban infrastructure and public services: Foreign investors are encouraged to engage in the fields of constructing urban roads, water supplies, sewage disposal, waste disposal, real estates, urban transportation, etc. 11. Logistics and storage: Foreign and private investors are encouraged to develop central market and regional center of logistics; Foreign investors are encouraged to develop warehousing and transportation centers along the line of the Luoyang-Zhanjiang Railway, the Guilin-Wuzhou Expressway and the Guangzhou-Hezhou Expressway, with efforts made on developing modern logistics like chain business, delivery, e-commerce, etc. Development Advantages Resources Advantage: Agriculture Resources: Location and Transportation Advantage: Hezhou is suitable for developing agriculture, livestock farming, and subtropical crops, and abounds with subtropical fruits, including pomelo, orange, greengage, longan, etc. Since 1990s, Hezhou has been fully utilizing its advantage to optimize the comprehensive agriculture development, and now export-oriented agriculture has become a popular investment spot. Nowadays, it is the largest production base of navel orange, greengage, and sanhua plum, and has basically completed the quality and safety demonstration area of agricultural export product, enjoying a reputation of being “a shopping basket of vegetable for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao”. With the name “thoroughfare for three provinces”, Hezhou is located at the northeast part of Guangxi, where Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan provinces meet, and it is to the west of Qingyuan and Zhaoqing of Guangdong Province, to the south of Yongzhou of Hunan Province. Connected by the expressways, Hezhou is 200 km away from Guilin, about 230 km away from Guangzhou, and 430 km from Hong Kong and Macao. Hezhou serves as an important thoroughfare for southwestern China to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao as well as to the sea. It is the bridgehead undertaking the economic radiation and industrial transfer from overseas and the mainland coastal region, and it is also the region mostly closed to Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao enjoying the preferential policies for western region development. The convenient transportation networks of Hezhou are extended in all directions. The national highway 207 and 323 through the city are stretching to four directions. The Luoyang-Zhanjiang railway and the Guilin-Hezhou-Wuzhou expressway have completely open Forest Resources: to traffic; the Hezhou section of Hezhou-Guangzhou expressway has been completed; Yongzhou-Hezhou expressway and Guiyang-Guangzhou